Basic Shots  
          
         Establishing Shot (or General 
         shot):  
         This shot shows the place where 
         the characters are or where the 
         action is about to take place. 
          
                            
                            
                            
                           Long Shot:  
                           It is a shot that shows a full-body image of  a 
                           person.  
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
          
         American Shot:   
          This shot shows the body of a character from the 
         knees to the head. 
                       
                       Medium Shot:  
                      This shot shows the character from the waist to 
                      the head.  
                       
                       
                       
                       
                       
                      Close-Up: 
                    •   Face: It shows a close detail of a face.                     •       Object: It shows a close detail of an object.  
                       
                       
                      Point of view:  
                      Shot filmed from the same position 
                      where the eyes of a character are 
                      supposed to be, so that you see what the 
                      character is seeing (that is, as if the 
                      camera were the actors eyes) to show 
                      the character’s feelings, or the other 
                      characters’ reactions to his acts or words. 
                      Basic Angles:  
                       
                          •   High-Angle shot:  
                              It is shot with the camera  placed above 
                              the subject, pointing down at it. Used to 
                              make someone look smaller or weaker. 
                              Good for horror films when filming the 
                              victim. 
                       
                       
                                                                            
                                                                            
                                                                           Neutral shot:  
                                                                           It is shot with the camera placed at the same 
                                                                           level as the object. It  has little or no 
                                                                           psycological effect on the viewer. 
                                                                            
                                                                            
                                                                            
                                                                            
                                                                            
                         
                         
                        Low-angle shot:  
                        It is filmed from below with the camera pointing up. 
                        Used to make someone look bigger or more powerful. 
                   Camera Movements: 
                   Panning:   
                   it consists of a horizontal or a vertical 
                   movement of the camera to shoot the film. 
                    
                   .  
                                                 Cameras pan by turning 
                                                          
                                                 horizontally on a vertical axis 
                                                                  
                                                           Cameras also pan by turning             
                                                           vertically on a horizontal axis.        
                                                    
                                                                                 
                                                                                Tracking Shots:  
                                                                                A tracking shot (or dolly shot) is 
                                                                                a shot in which the camera is 
                                                                                mounted on a wheeled 
                                                                                platform that is pushed on rails 
                                                                                while the picture is being taken. 
                                                                                Sometimes they dolly in on a 
                                                                                stationary subject, and 
                                                                                sometimes they dolly on a 
                                                                                moving subject. 
                    
                    
                   Zooming:  
                   It consists of making the things/people come 
                   closer/become bigger (ZOOM IN) or go 
                   further/become smaller. (ZOOM OUT).  
                   Don’t zoom in and out too much, because it 
                   usually looks awful, and please, zoom slowly.